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ASIC Prototyping Solution

Product SummaryThe proFPGA duo SG280 system is a complete and modular multi FPGA solution, which meets highest requirements in the area of FPGA based Prototyping. It addresses customers who need a scalable and flexible high speed ASIC Prototyping solution for early software development and real time system verification. The innovative system concept offers highest flexibility and reusability, reconfigurability for several projects, which guarantees the best return on invest.

Highest FlexibilityThe system architecture is based on a modular and scalable system concept. The FPGAs are assembled on dedicated FPGA modules, which will be plugged on the proFPGA uno, duo or quad mother board. This offers the highest flexibility to use for example different FPGA types in one system or to scale a system in increments of one FPGA. The user has access to almost all I/Os of the FPGA, which gives him maximum freedom regarding the FPGA inter connection structure. This way the prototyping system can be adapted in the best way to any user design. Furthermore the system offers a total of 16 extension sites on the top and bottom site for standard proFPGA or user specific extension boards like DDR4 memory, PCIe gen1/2/3, Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0 or other high performance interface and interconnection boards.

Maximum PerformanceThe well designed boards of the proFPGA system are optimized and trimmed to guarantee best signal integrity and to achieve highest performance. The high speed boards together with specific high speed connectors allow a maximum point to point speed of up to 1.0 Gbps single ended over the standard FPGA I/O and up to 17.4 Gbps differential over the high speed serial transceivers of the FPGA. This performance combined with the high interconnection flexibility allows the designer to run his design at maximum speed in the proFPGA system.

Biggest CapacityEquipped with up to two Intel® Stratix® 10 SG280 FPGA modules, the proFPGA duo system can handle up to 40 M ASIC gates on only one board. Due to the fact, that multiple proFPGA quad or duo systems can be connected to an even larger system, there is an unli- mited scalability and no theoretical maximum in capacity.

Very User FriendlyThe proFPGA prototyping system provides an extensive set of features and tools, like remote system configuration, integrated self and performance test, automatic board detection, automatic I/O voltage programming, system scan and safety mechanism, which simplifies the usage of the FPGA based system tremendously.

Specification

FPGAs

Up to 2 x Intel® Stratix® 10 SG280 FPGA Modules

Capacity

Up to 40 M ASIC gates on one board (20 M ASIC gates per FPGA Module)

FPGA-internal memory

Up to 458 Mbit on one board (229Mbit per FPGA Module)

Signaling rate

Up to 1.0 Gbps single ended (standard I/O)/ up to 17.4 Gbps differential

Technologies

Different FPGA configurations are handled and controlled by profpga Messenger

Smart Stacking Technology (SST)

Automatic Board detection when boards are plugged

Automatic and right I/O voltage setting and programming with conflict detection

Integrated interconnection self and performance test

Smart I/O resource management. No I/O resources get lost or get blocked by connectors

Device Message Box Interface (DMBI)

High speed, low latency data exchange system

Enables various use modes like remote system configuration and monitoring and debugging

Up to 3.5 Gbps data transfer rate

Runs over USB, Ethernet or PCIe

Advanced Clock Management (ACM)

The proFPGA system uses an innovative dual-stage clock generator architecture. Each proFPGA motherboard is capable of distributing up to 8 true asynchronous master beats. Each master beat may be used to derive a virtually unlimited number of clock domains inside the FPGAs. With the unique proFPGA synchronization scheme, clock domains and associated reset signals can be generated fully phase-synchronous over all FPGAs on the motherboard and over multiple motherboards.